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Re: The last smoker in my life has FINALLY decided to quit - now that she's diagnosed as terminal - Numo - 01-04-2017
Rick-o wrote:
The tobacco industry and their lobbyists are very powerful. You will never see tobacco outlawed.
A friend of mine pointed out that if tobacco were newly invented, the FDA (or whoever has responsibility for approval) would NEVER approve it.
Re: The last smoker in my life has FINALLY decided to quit - now that she's diagnosed as terminal - OWC Jamie - 01-04-2017
smokers stink
Re: The last smoker in my life has FINALLY decided to quit - now that she's diagnosed as terminal - MartyStickle - 01-04-2017
I smoked from birth to 18, when I went off to college.
Parents both had cancer related deaths years after finally stopping.
Re: The last smoker in my life has FINALLY decided to quit - now that she's diagnosed as terminal - Lew Zealand - 01-05-2017
Smoking kills only about 1 in 7 lifelong smokers so most lifelong smokers will not die from lung cancer, heart disease, or any other complications from smoking. Individually it's not the primary factor in killing a person who smokes but the cumulative effect on the population of smokers is what's so catastrophic. There aren't many things a person can do out there which claims the lives of 1 in 7 users.
Re: The last smoker in my life has FINALLY decided to quit - now that she's diagnosed as terminal - DeusxMac - 01-05-2017
Lew Zealand wrote:
Smoking kills only about 1 in 7 lifelong smokers...
Source for this statistic?
"Cigarette smoking causes about one of every five deaths in the United States each year"
Remember, lung cancer is not the only cigarette-related cause of premature death.
"The major causes of excess mortality among smokers are diseases that are related to smoking, including cancer and respiratory and vascular disease."
And just because a smoker lived to 82 or 87...
"Life expectancy for smokers is at least 10 years shorter than for nonsmokers."
https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/health_effects/tobacco_related_mortality/index.htm
Re: The last smoker in my life has FINALLY decided to quit - now that she's diagnosed as terminal - Lew Zealand - 01-07-2017
I'll try to find it. I heard it on a podcast which spends the time to get their sources and interpretations of statistics like this correct.